Frank Blake

male
American retail chief executive, Southern Company, United States Supreme Court, United States Department of Energy, Home Depot, American…American General Counsel, GeneralElectric
Frank Blake was appointed chairman and CEO of The Home Depot in January 2007. Home Depot is currently the third largest retailer in the world, and...
Frank Whittle

Frank Whittle

male, deceased (1996)
National Inventors Hall of Fame, jet engine, inventor, Sir Frank Whittle, Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Member of the Order of Merit…GeneralElectric
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907-9 August 1996) was an English Royal Air Force officer and is seen as the...
Dick Ebersol

Dick Ebersol

male, 62 years old (Litchfield, Connecticut, United States)
NBC Universal Sports & Olympics, Saturday Night Live, olympics, American, Television executive, Notre Dame Fighting Irish football…GeneralElectric
Duncan "Dick" Ebersol is an American radio and TV manager. He was protégé of ABC Sports czar Roone Arledge and was a key NBC executive in the la...

James Wright

male
engineer, silicone, elasticity, rubber, boric acid, American…GeneralElectric
James Wright was an engineer at General Electric who invented Silly Putty in 1943. The invention of Silly Putty happened by accident. During World...
Percy Barnevik

Percy Barnevik

male, 68 years old
Economist, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, from Skåne, Skåne, Västerås, Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law…General Motors executive, GeneralElectric
Since 2000, Percy Barnevik has been active in philanthropic work in Tamil Nadu, India. Presently, he is an adviser and donor to the Indian Trust,...
Gerard Swope

Gerard Swope

male, deceased (1957)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, company, GeneralElectric, efficiency, Labor Relations, reforms…president of General Electric
Gerard Swope (December 1, 1872 - November 20, 1957) was a U.S. electronics businessman. He served as the president of General Electric Company...
Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener

male, deceased (1964)
Jewish person, society, philosophy, mathematician, Harvard University alumni, Harvard University faculty…GeneralElectric
Norbert Wiener was an American theoretical and applied mathematician. He was a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing...

Gary M. Reiner

male
information technology, Boston Consulting Group, Business Person, Harvard Business School alumni, Corporate executive, Six Sigma…GeneralElectric
Biography: Gary M. Reiner is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of GE, a position he has held since 1996. Reiner joined GE in 1991...
Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

male, deceased (1923)
German native of Silesia, GeneralElectric, German-American, inventor, electrical engineer, socialist…Steinmetz Electric Motor
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865-October 26, 1923) was an American Mathematician and Electrical Engineer. He fostered the development of...
Joseph Weizenbaum

Joseph Weizenbaum

male, 86 years old
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Natural language processing, eliza, MIT, Jewish person, artificial intelligence…GeneralElectric
Joseph Weizenbaum (Berlin, January 8, 1923) is a professor emeritus of computer science at MIT. Born in Berlin to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi...